Duration of progression-free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Assessed using a stratified Cox proportional hazards model.

Incidence of adverse events as assessed by CTCAE version 3.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 6 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

The maximum grade over the entire course of therapy for any individual effect will be used as a summary of acute toxicity. The Kruskal-Wallis test corrected for ties will be used to compare the maximum grade of acute adverse effects of therapy by treatment arm.

Quality of life measured using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT)-general, Physical Well-being and Functional Well-being subscales, FACT-endometrial, and FACT/GOG-NTtx subscale [ Time Frame: Up to 30 weeks following initiation of therapy ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

This randomized phase III trial studies paclitaxel and carboplatin see how well it works compared with paclitaxel and ifosfamide in treating patients with newly diagnosed persistent or recurrent uterine, ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cavity cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel, carboplatin, and ifosfamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. It is not yet known whether paclitaxel is more effective when given with carboplatin or ifosfamide in treating patients with uterine, ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cavity cancer.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if treatment with combination paclitaxel and carboplatin (TC) chemotherapy does not result in an inferior death rate when compared to ifosfamide, mesna, and paclitaxel chemotherapy.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if treatment with combination paclitaxel and carboplatin (TC) chemotherapy does not result in an inferior progression-free survival when compared to ifosfamide, mesna, and paclitaxel chemotherapy.

II. To determine if acute toxicity, specifically physician-assessed neurotoxicity and infection, associated with combination paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy is reduced compared to that of ifosfamide, mesna, and paclitaxel chemotherapy.

III. To determine if treatment with combination paclitaxel and carboplatin chemotherapy is associated with superior patient-reported quality of life and neurotoxicity scores compared to that of ifosfamide, mesna, and paclitaxel chemotherapy.

Patients must have newly diagnosed stage I-IV, persistent or recurrent (including unstaged) uterine carcinosarcoma (malignant mixed mullerian tumor-MMMT or with ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal carcinosarcoma and an enrollment date prior to 10/21/2013; pathology confirmed by site/institutional pathologist prior to enrollment) and be chemotherapy naïve as directed against their carcinosarcoma; unstaged patients (patients who have not had hysterectomy or ovarian surgery) are eligible and should be included as "unstaged" if the only histologic (pathology) documentation of the disease is a biopsy or curettage of the uterus; if these patients have documented metastatic disease, it should be assigned the appropriate stage (III/IV)

Patients may have received prior adjuvant external beam radiation therapy and/or vaginal brachytherapy; patients should be at least 4 weeks from the completion of external beam radiotherapy prior to beginning protocol chemotherapy; patients do not need to be delayed if receiving vaginal brachytherapy only

Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) performance status 0, 1, or 2

Patients must have recovered from the effects of recent surgery, radiotherapy, or other therapy

Patients must be free of active infection requiring antibiotics

Any hormonal therapy directed at the malignant tumor must be discontinued at least one week prior to beginning protocol chemotherapy; continuation of hormone replacement therapy is permitted

Alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to 2.5 times ULN (CTCAE v3.0 grade 1)

Serum albumin should be equal to or greater than 3 g/dL

Neuropathy (sensory and motor) less than or equal to CTCAE v3.0 grade 1

Patients must have signed an approved informed consent and authorization permitting release of personal health information

Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test prior to study entry and be practicing an effective form of contraception

Patients may have measurable disease or non-measurable disease; measurable disease is defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest dimension to be recorded); each lesion must be >= 20 mm when measured by conventional techniques, including palpation, plain x-ray, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or >= 10 mm when measured by spiral CT; measurable disease patients must have at least one "target lesion" to be used to assess progression on this protocol as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors (RECIST); tumors within a previously irradiated field will be designated as "non-target" lesions unless progression is documented or a biopsy is obtained to confirm persistence at least 90 days following completion of radiation therapy

Exclusion Criteria:

Patients who have received prior cytotoxic chemotherapy for management of uterine or ovarian carcinosarcoma

Patients with a history of other invasive malignancies or with a concomitant invasive malignancy, with the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, if there is any evidence of other malignancy being present within the last five years; patients are also ineligible if their previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy

Patients for whom radiotherapy is planned after or during chemotherapy prior to progression of cancer

Patients with known hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived drug preparations (pegfilgrastim and filgrastim [G-CSF])

Patients with a known hypersensitivity to mesna or other thiol compounds

For enrollment prior to 10/21/2013, patients who are not biopsy proven to have carcinosarcoma of the uterus, fallopian tube, peritoneum or ovary; for enrollment after 10/21/2013, patients who are not biopsy proven to have carcinosarcoma of the uterus

Gender

Female

Ages

18 Years and older

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

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